Squeeeeeeling brakes

:hissyfit: Driving a V70 T5 and the front offside brake squeals at low speed.Drives me mad, there are no shims on the front brakes, i presume this is the problem. I have been to Halfords and looked at there kits but they have no shims in them. Anyone know if this is the problem and if they do shims for the front brakes.

Shims and/or copper grease on the reverse of the pads should sort it. Jack

It's a common problem, usually exacerbated by use of non-Volvo pads. Some have made their own shims up - I seem to recall a post on here where someone cut some from a steel can. Otherwise copious amounts of copper grease may help.

squeeeeeling 

my brakes were squaaling too, put shims in the rear and the noise which i thought was from the front had gone.

i had this problem with my old 850 and used some AP silicon shims ,these were self adhesive and stuck to the back of the pad cured the squeel strait away..:regular_smile:

mine sqeeeeel aswell but at the moment its the least of my worrys here the info on AP's site scroll down for anti squeal shim info

I recently changed all of the discs and pads on my V70 using Mintex replacements and haven't had a single squeal since. The Mintex pads come with an anti-squeal material moulded onto the back. Prior to the change, the brakes were getting very squeally - and were also worn. The noisiest was the driver's side rear and these pads were also the most worn of the lot (incidentally, the old pads also had anti-squeal material on them). Based on that, it would seem that excessive brake squeal probably indicates wear, so if your brakes are noisy it's probably time to get them changed.